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@brerrabbit585 wrote:

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I don't sell OS. If I am opted in and some mug in Venezuela wants to pay $30+ for a $5 paperback, then they will be welcome. As I will only have to post to a depot in Australia it will be a domestic sale from my perspective. Something the critics of the GSP seem to conveniently ignore.

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But won't you still have to pay ebay and paypal fees on the extra postage, and the extra 1% in paypal fees because it's an overseas payment, and possibly the extra cross currency fees?

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I'm guessing FVF will only apply to the sale amount the seller receives, which would be item price + domestic postage, as they don't see / receive the GSP portion of the sale and the payment the buyer makes is split in two.

eBay UK do the same over there as here (charge FVF on whatever the buyer pays, as opposed to only on the domestic option even if the buyer is OS and pays a lot more like they do in the US), and in the FAQs on the UK GSP info page, they do also state that for the purposes of FVF, it is identical to any other domestic sale, so I would expect that to apply here as well. 

It would cost more as an OS payment, but I suspect there are more people selling to overseas buyers than they realise, because it's very easy to simply provide an Australian address if a seller won't ship outside of Aus and buy anyway. 

I'm not sure if I'd opt in, it would probably solve some of the concerns I have about shipping OS on eBay specifically, but at the same time it would seem unfair as I do ship OS on other sites, via the most economical methods, which Pitney Bowes certainly wouldn't provide.